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Reviews for Prevent Closing Window

Prevent Closing Window by jscher2000

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  • by Seikikai, 10 months ago
    The Extension Works But It's Annoying That The Tab Auto Opens In The Startup And When You Open A New Tab In A Second Window
  • by Firefox user 10266452, 3 years ago
    This plugin requires you to have an open tab dedicated to it in every window you open. It doesn't work without that tab. When you open a new window, this plugin can open a new tab, which covers up your new tab page. Noble effort, but too many sacrifices to be useful.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Yes, the only way to block a window from closing is to have one of your tabs raise an alarm when you try to close it. You don't need it in every window because Firefox can restore most closed windows from the History menu, but you do need it in every private window because Firefox cannot restore those.

    An alternative design would be to inject that script into a tab *you* open in the window. But then it would need to be re-injected if you left that page or closed that tab, so it seemed safest to have a dedicated tab.

    I can look at the new tab blocking issue. That is because protection needs to be activated manually for each window you want to protect. Maybe it is possible to do that automatically and then slide the tab out of the way. But there would still be a tab.

    If you find a better solution, please update your review to let me and other users know what it is.
  • by Korwin, 4 years ago
    Для того, чтобы дополнение работало, разработчик предлагает выбрать для вкладки дополнения ("Keep Open 1.0") вариант "Pin This Tab" или "First Position" или "Right Here". При этом, в меню вкладки доступны только варианты "New Tab", "Reload Tab", "Mute Tab", "Pin Tab", "Duplicate Tab", "Bookmark Tab", "Move Tab", "Open in New Container Tab", "Select All Tabs", "Close Tab", "Close Multiple Tabs" и "Reopen Closed Tab" — т. е. ни одного из предложенного. Видимо, дополнение не актуализируется. Кроме того, в принципе неудобно всегда постоянно держать ненужную вкладку. И главное — в Mozilla Firefox 93.0b7 (64-bit) под Microsoft Windows 10.0.19042.1237 дополнение не работает.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Hi Korwin, the extension can be set to automatically load the green "Keep Open" page in a new window, or you can click its toolbar button to open that page. There you will find the buttons to activate protection in that window (the buttons are in the Keep Open page, not on the tab context menu -- see https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net/user-media/previews/full/220/220130.png).

    As far as I can tell, the extension is working in Firefox 93.0b7 (Developer Edition). If you are not even seeing the toolbar button, make sure the extension has permission to run in private windows (https://support.mozilla.org/kb/extensions-private-browsing).